Director Of The Microbiology Mutualised Platform (P2M)
CurrentThe Microbiology Mutualised Platform (P2M) is open to all the reference laboratories of the Institut Pasteur, in Paris and within the International Network (RIIP). In a spirit of technological mutualisation, P2M gathers all the requests and thus allows the previously not possible routine use of innovative techniques such as next generations multi-pathogenic sequencing, automated extraction of nucleic acids and MALDI-TOF.The sequencing is made according to a unique library manufacturing protocol whatever the pathogen (bacteria, viruses, mushrooms or parasites). This choice allows to optimise the deadlines and, so, to integrate the technology into the panel of microbiological public health surveillance tools. Bio-IT specialists commissioned by the C3BI realize the tests of quality of the sequences generated by the sequencer and can also help laboratories, if needed, to implement routine sequence analyses. We work with the Illumina.